Relationship between Community Participation, Socio Economy and Organizational Capacity on Sustainable Development

  • Authors

    • Aziz Amin
    • Ahmad Puad Mat Som
    • Yahaya Ibrahim
    • Mohd Shaladdin Muda
    2018-12-13
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.34.23846
  • Community Participation, Socio-Economy, Organizational Capacity, Sustainable Development

  • This paper attempts to understand the influence of community participation, socio-economy and organizational capacity on the sustainability of community based tourism, focusing on homestay programs. This study has gathered data from 96 homestay’s operators from northern states of peninsular Malaysia. This study used path analysis approach to determine community participation and socio-economy factors that trigger organizational capacity and sustainable development. Based on the results, community participation and socio-economy are correlated in indirect effect with sustainable development through organizational capacity. Thus the path-analysis indicates that the engagement of organizational capacity in the homestay program will correlate community participation and socio-economy toward sustainable development.

     

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    Amin, A., Puad Mat Som, A., Ibrahim, Y., & Shaladdin Muda, M. (2018). Relationship between Community Participation, Socio Economy and Organizational Capacity on Sustainable Development. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4.34), 140-142. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.34.23846